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Females in ITRecruitment and Retention
Sally Mc Hugh
Dept. of Information Technology and Archaeology
3BA
April 2nd 2012
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Why?
• Low numbers of females in Computer related courses
What?
• Can be done to recruit
• Can be done to retain
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Ireland Today
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HEA Statistics: Women in Higher
Education
Computer Science:
6% NUIG to 21% UCC
Arts:
57% UCD - 66% DCU
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U.S. 1989 - 2008
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Gender Differences
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Maths.
Sciences
72.00 74.00 76.00 78.00 80.00 82.00 84.00 86.00 88.00 90.00 92.00
Leaving Certificate 2010/11
Boys Girls
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I don’t think I was good enough!
The test was crap!
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Educational ObjectivesET 2020
Create a competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in Europe
15 % increase in graduates in Maths, Science and Technology
Gender imbalance in these subjects to be reduced
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Evolution
Revolution
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Education is where it must begin
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Recruitment Reaching out to disciplines that already have a high
concentration of women
NUI Galway Arts 2011 – 63.25% female
Actively recruit
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Retention
Program designed towards females’ educational needs
Role models
Motivated teachers
Peer support
Mentoring – Teaching assistants
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The Future?
Universities can create changes
Understanding the underlying problems
Developing strategies
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“My slogan is: Computing is too important to be left to men.”
Karen Sparck-Jones: Pioneer in information retrievaland natural language processing. 1935–2007
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Thank you for listening